FLORAL EMBLEMS. 273 



SCULPTURE. 



HOY A. Hoy a carnosa. 



" Then sculpture and her sister arts revive, 

 Stones leap'd to form and rocks began to live." 



Pope. 



The artists who give in substance what the 

 poets give in idea must not want a symbol to 

 their ensign. And as we have not the power 

 to convoke a general meeting of these creative 

 artificers, to ascertain which of the undis- 

 posed of flowers they would prefer, we assume 

 the privilege of registering their floral em- 

 blem, in our little college of heraldic flowers, 

 without either their assent, or the assistance 

 of the pursuivant or garter king of arms. 



We have gathered this emblematical flower 

 of sculpture in Asia, it being the quarter of 

 the globe where the arts first originated. And 



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